Officials say there have been more than 85 physical assaults on TSA officers since the beginning of the pandemic.
The FAA announced nearly 100 more in-flight incidents with unruly passengers -- a week after it’s worst weekly report of unruly passengers this summer -- bringing this year's total to 3,509 reports. An overwhelming majority of these incidents, 2,605, involve passengers who refuse to comply with the federal mask mandate.These acts of aggression are happening before boarding as well.
TSA Acting Administrator Darby LaJoye told the House Subcommittee on Transportation & Maritime Security Tuesday morning that there have been more than 85 physical assaults on TSA officers since the beginning of the pandemic. That figure includes 25 assaults since the end of May.Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE.
A Transportation Security Administration agent guides travelers at a checkpoint in the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich., June 12, 2021.But a number of the assaults have also been alcohol related. "Passengers have pushed and shoved officers and in some cases passengers have literally bitten TSOs," Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., said."All too often these assaults occur simply because a crew member was doing their job in seeking to enforce common sense mask policies designed to protect fliers from COVID-19."
Assaulting a TSA officer can result in a civil penalty of up to almost $15,000 and a ban from TSA PreCheck. The FAA says its maximum penalty for interfering with flight crew is $35,000, but the agency
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